Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-09
MODERN JERUSALEM.
Views from Mount Olivet and Hill
on the Bethlehem Road.


The Holy City looked very prosper
Gus and beautiful from this poin
(Mount Olivet), and the wind in tn
olives made pleasant sound; so W
stood and looked and the sacred teach
ings from all our lives came up abou
us whole aud fair, as they had beer
before we saw the Jerusalem of to-day
A rough field lay all about us, will
scanty soil, where the gnarled ole
olives. standing apart, looked as i
they had fought hard for life. Ant
all over the place wherever nature pre-
dominated over the slight cultivation
there grew a low bush-they call i
"chaparrar' in Texas-it is all thorns
and gray; at least, the leaves had moi
yet appeared. Everywhere they grew
these low, thorny bushes; so it was
not far they had to seek the Master
| crown.
On top of the Mount there are few
dirty novels and a mosque with high
| minaret, from the top of which we had
| a beautiful view. The dead sea, lying
| blue and still, low down among its
verdureless hills-the course of the
Jordan outlined in green-Jerusalem
Bethany, and all about the white
roads winding away among the curv-
ing hills.
Another view we had which equaled
this: 1t was from hilltop on the road
to Bethlehem. From this we saw the
Dead sea and Olivet. Jerusalem and
Mizpeh, Bethlehem and all the fair
green plains where still the shepherds
watch their focks. BY the time one
makes the journey to Bethlehem, how
ever, one has become dull and unen-
thusiastic. The town is dirty and the
guide talks on necessarily; the man
ger, neatly finished marble box; the
Altar of the Star, the Altar of the In
nocents, the tomb of st. jerome and
the tomb of st. Paula seem all to be of
equal value in the eyes of the Fran
ciscan brother who shows them to
you.
But the cell of St. jerome; just the
place gloomy dyspeptic would choose
for his abode; this seemed of more
worth. Rather damp it was, with the
light coming in from above. and not
very much of it; but not at all unin-
habitable. Upstairs the Greek church
is impressive-impressive, because of
its perfect simplicity; for the brown
rafters are all implanted and ungilded,
and are the resting places of many
sparrows and swallows, whose twitter-
ing and chirpings filled the cool gloom.
1t reminded me of the peaceful Campo,
Santo at Pisa; and with Gethsemane,
and the wheat fields about Bethany, is
the calmest memory have of Jerusa--
lem.-C0r. Louisville Courier -Jour7anZ.
Captain johnson Sides, an intelli-
gent Piute Indian, says that the idea
prevalent among the whites that the
Piutes are gradually diminishing in
numbers is incorrect. The census re-
turns of 1880 show that there were at
that time only $500, but he says many
of them were not counted, and that
there were fully 5000. He estimates
the present number of the tribe at
fully 5000. and probably 9. 800 Y
Sun.
In Rondout, N. Y, there is IA
restaurant that displays printed cards
which convey to customers informa-
ton OF what may be obtained there.
One of the signs reads as follows:
Lamb chopsesj' another, .'oyster
stewses;" another, '.aal kindses of
pises;'' another. ''oyster fryses," etc.
A man walked into the place, and
after looking at the signs, blandly
asked the clerk for a ''piecies Of
pieses. "--Chicaoo Times.